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Big Data at SJSU

San Jose State University - located in the heart of Silicon Valley - is surrounded
by companies producing and manipulating large data sets. Our program is focused on
optimizing these very data sets into useable and dynamic troves of significant policy
and programmatic change agents. Giving each researcher and student on campus the
tools to work with... and analyze these large pools of information in such a way as
to positively affect each of our lives.

Using Daniel Kusnetzky's 2010 article in ZDNet entitled "What is Big Data?", his definition of big data is, "In simplest terms, the phrase "big data" refers to the tools, processes and procedures
allowing an organization to create, manipulate, and manage very large data sets and
storage facilities. Does this mean terabytes, petabytes or even larger collections
of data? The answer is yes."

SJSU will be engaging is a variety of projects over the next few months and we invite
each of our website readers to make suggestions through our contact us page.